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Chapter 4. Accounts

4.1. Register New Accounts
4.2. Sign In and Sign Out
4.3. Remember User Account
4.4. Change Account Settings
4.5. Account and Password Retrieval

Users who visit the Portal and who are not registered are limited in the content they can see. Users who need access to deeper content or who need to undertake actions within the prtal should register themselves and then contact the portal administrator to have appropriate permissions added to their account.

Users can quickly and easily register a new account by themselves. Just by completing the steps below, you will have a new account that helps you access more pages and take more actions in GateIn 3.0:

After adding a new account, you should contact the administrator to get appropriate permissions added to your account.

After registering your account, you can sign in to GateIn 3.0 to go into your private mode.

Procedure 4.1. Sign In

  1. Go to a Portal in the public mode by inputting URL in the address bar (e.g: http://localhost:8080/portal)

  2. Click the Sign in link at the top right of the page if you are current in the Classic portal. The Sign in form appears:

  3. Input your registered User name and Password .

  4. Select the Remember My Login check box when you sign in GateIn 3.0 at the first time if you want to automatically return to GateIn 3.0 without signing in again. You can see Section 4.3, “Remember User Account” for more details.

  5. Click the Sign in button to submit the form or Discard to escape.

  6. Details:

    User name

    The registered user name.

    Password

    The registered password.

    Remember My Login

    This option allows users to return to GateIn 3.0 and be automatically authenticated based on the value of a cookie provided by the bvarlistentryser. Thus users do not have to perform an explicit authentication again.

    Forgot your User Name/Password?

    To follow some steps to get the forgotten user name or password. Please refer [Portal:Account and Password Retrieval] for more details.

    Sign in

    To sign into GateIn 3.0 with user name and password.

    Discard

    To close the *Sign In* form.

    If User Name does not exist or the User name/Password is invalid an alert message will appear. This alert requires you to input a recognised value. To attempt the login again; click the OK button on the alert message to be returned to the Sign In form. Enter User Name and Password again.

    After signing in, you will be redirected to the authenticated homepage:

    After signing in, you will be redirected to the authenticated homepage and welcomed with your full First Name and Last Name:

This feature allows users to return to the GateIn 3.0 and be automatically authenticated based on the value of a cookie provided by the browser. Thus users do not have to perform an explicit authentication again.

You must remember to close your browser without signing out (as signing out will delete the cookie). The next time, you can automatically sign in the portal without signing in again with your first/last name welcome.

Users can follow this guide to change account information.

To change your account information, click on the account name in the top navigation bar:

The Account Profiles form will appear:

If you want to change your Account Profile information:

If you want to change your Password :

Should you forget your account or password you can recover it quickly by following these simple steps:

After you submit the form an email will be send to your email address with the requested information, either your username or password.

If you forgot your username, an old user name still is valid when retrieving username.

If you forgot your password you will be sent a new (temporary) password. You will be directed to change this password the next time you sign in.

'Recovered' usernames or passwords are only valid for one (1) day after being sent. If these details are not used within this time a new retrieval/reset will be required.